Canning Town
Canning Town is a district of West Ham in the London Borough of Newham, East London, England, north of the Royal Victoria Dock. Its urbanisation was largely due to the creation of the dock.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Canning Town station and River Lea.
Canning Town station
Railway station
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Canning Town is an interchange station located in Canning Town, London. It provides Jubilee line services of the London Underground, and the Docklands Light Railway.
River Lea
River
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The River Lea is in the East of England and Greater London. It originates in Bedfordshire, in the Chiltern Hills, and flows southeast through Hertfordshire, along the Essex border and into Greater London, to meet the River Thames at Bow Creek.
Rokeby School
School
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Rokeby School is an 11–16 secondary school for boys located in Canning Town, Greater London, England. In 2010 the school relocated to new building on the Barking Road.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Custom House and Plaistow.
Custom House
Quarter
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Custom House is an area in the London Borough of Newham, in East London, England. The area is named after the custom house of Royal Victoria Dock. Today the dock is used for recreation but, in the past, it dominated the industry and commerce of the area from 1855 until the 1940s before closing in 1980.
Plaistow
Suburb
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Plaistow is a suburban area of East London, England, within the London Borough of Newham. It adjoins Upton Park to the north, East Ham to the east, Beckton to the south, Canning Town to the south-west, and West Ham to the west.
Bow Locks
Locality
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Bow Locks No. 20 is a set of bi-directional locks in Bromley-by-Bow in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Newham. The locks link the tidal Bow Creek to the River Lee Navigation, which is a canalised river.
Canning Town
- Type: Suburb with 30,800 residents
- Description: district of the London Borough of Newham
- Categories: town, area of London, and locality
- Location: Newham, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.51817° or 51° 31′ 5″ northLongitude
0.0135° or 0° 0′ 49″ eastPopulation
30,800Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB ZAKOpen location code
9F32G297+79OpenStreetMap ID
node 27486121OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Canning Town” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Canning Town”
- Basque: “Canning Town”
- Belarusian: “Кэнінг Таўн”
- Catalan: “Canning Town”
- Chinese: “坎宁镇”
- Chinese: “坎寧鎮”
- Chinese: “景寧鎮”
- Dutch: “Canning Town”
- French: “Canning Town”
- Irish: “Canning Town”
- Japanese: “カニング・タウン”
- Ladin: “Canning Town”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Canning Town”
- Norwegian: “Canning Town”
- Polish: “Canning Town”
- Portuguese: “Canning Town”
- Russian: “Кеннинг Таун”
- Slovenian: “Canning Town”
- Swedish: “Canning Town”
- Turkish: “Canning Town”
- Urdu: “کینینگ ٹاؤن”
- Welsh: “Canning Town”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Canning Town”. Photo: Ian Cunliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.